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811b. Osmerus mordax abbotti (Cope). Cobessicontic Smelt. 



Landlocked in Cobessicontic Lake, Kennebec County, Maine. 

 Osmerus abbotti Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1870, 490, Cobessicontic Lake, 

 Maine. 



812. Osmerus dentex Steiudacbuer. Rainbow Herring. 



Coast of Alaska and south on the Pacilic Coast to northern Cbina. 

 Osmerus dentex Steiudacbuer, Sitzuugsb. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wieu, lxi, 1870. 

 429, northern China. 



Genus 243. HYPOMESTJS Gill. Surf Smelts. 

 Eypomesus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 168 {pretiosa). 



813. Hypomesus pretiosus (Girard). Surf Smelt. 



Coast of California and Oregon, from Monterey northward. 



Argentina pretiosa Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 155, San J'rancisco. 



814. Hypomesus olidus (Pallas). Pond Smelt. 



Alaska and Kamchatka. 



Salmo (Osmerus) olidus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., iii, 391, 1811, lakes and 

 rivers of Kamchatka. 



Geaus 244. ARGENTINA (Artedi) Linnaeus. Argentines. 



Argentina (Artedi) Liumeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 315, 1758 (sjihyraina). 



815. Argentina silus Ascanius. 



Northern Europe ; occasionally taken on the Grand Banks and off the coast 



of Maine. 

 Argentina silus Ascanius, Icon. Rev. Nat., pi. 3, 3, 24, 1763, Norway. 



816. Argentina sialis Gilbert. 



Coast of California. 



Argentina sialis Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 56, coast of California at 

 Albatross Station 3017, in 58 fathoms. 



817. Argentina striata Goode & Bean. 



Gulf of Mexico. 



Argentina striata Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 52, hg. 62, 1896, Gulf 



of Mexico, in latitude 28° 36' N., longitude 85" 33' 30" W. 



Genus 245. LEUROGLOSSUS GUbert. 

 Leuroglossus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 57 (stilbius). 



818. Leuroglossus stilbius Gilbert. 



Coast of California. 



Leuroglossus stilbius Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 57, Coast of California 

 at Albatross Stations 2997 and 2998, in 221 and 40 fathoms. 



Family LXVIL MICROSTOMIDiE. 



Genus 246. NANSENIA Jordan & Evermann. 



Xanseiiia Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 528, 1896 

 {grwnlandiea). 



819. Nansenia groenlandica (Reinhardt). 



Greenland. 



Microstomus grtjcnlandicus Reinhardt, Vidensk. Selsk. Naturv. Math. Afhandl., 

 VIII, 1841, Lxxiv, Greenland. 



Genus 247. BATHYLAGTJS Gunther. 



Bathijlagus Giintber, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ii, 1878, 248 {atlanticus). 



820. Bathylagus benedicti Goode & Bean. 



Gulf Stream. 



Bathi/lagus benedicti Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 55, fig. 64, 1896, 

 Gulf Stream, at Albatross Stations 2094, 2711, and 2572, 



